Mykola Lemyk

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Mykola Lemyk (born 1914 in Galicia, died in 1941 in Myrhorod, Ukraine). After completing gymnasium he studied at the Lviv University. On October 21, 1933 he was ordered by PUN to assassinate the head of the Soviet Consulate Mainulov. The Polish courts gave Lemyk the death penalty, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. At the outset of WWII he was freed from jail and became one of the leaders of the OUN. From 1941 he was in the regional command of OUN (m) Melnyk faction) in Eastern Ukraine. In the Fall of 1941 he lead the Central Committee of the OUN. In October 1941 Lemyjk was arrested by the Gestapo in Myrhorod and shot.